Drop off glass at the Pearland Recycling Center and it could become a trail

Published 2:00 am, Wednesday, July 22, 2015

For Immediate Release

The Stella Roberts Recycling Center (5800 Magnolia, Pearland, TX 77584) wants your glass bottles and jars. Recycling glass at the center is easy. Just keep empty glass containers separate from the rest of your recyclables so that you can easily put it into the glass only bin (hopper) at the Stella Roberts Recycle Center.

The glass does not have to be free of paper labels.

The recycling center purchased the new glass crusher with Houston-Galveston Area Council of Governments solid waste grant funds, making Pearland a more environmentally friendly city. The nearest glass recycling facility is in Midlothian Texas, glass is heavy and shipping costs to get to to Midlothian are high. By crushing glass and using it locally Pearland will reduce its carbon footprint.

KPB and the City of Pearland would like to see more glass recycled in Pearland. Not only can glass be reused continuously by recycling it curbside, it can also be used to beautify our community. The glass crusher can crush and pulverize glass into sand and gravel pieces with no sharp edges, resulting in a great material for landscaping and walkways.

You can see the results of what can be done with crushed glass by visiting the Yard Wise Demonstration Garden adjacent to the Stella Roberts Recycle Center. After a recent tour of the Yard Wise Garden and Recycling Center last week, Megan Flowers of the Pearland Convention and Visitor Bureau said “The colors of the crushed glass are beautiful and add a lot of aesthetic appeal. It’s a creative way to visually enhance the garden and I think it’s much prettier than crushed granite.”

All colored and clear glass can be put in your recycling cart for curbside pick up or dropped off at the Stella Recycling Center at 5800 Magnolia, Pearland, TX 77584. But Keep Pearland Beautiful recommends keeping your glass separated from your other recyclables and dropping it off at the recycling center. By keeping glass recycling local, you can help reduce our carbon footprint while its crushed remnants beautify our local landscapes.